For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
SAINT AUGUSTINELord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.
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The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
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I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.
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